The city's best-known joke shop is flagged by an oversized Groucho moustache and glasses above the front door. You'll also find stage make-up, magic tricks...

Thanks to its prime site, this contemporary café can get terribly crowded in August. But it's worth trying for a table: the quality of food (soups, salads,...

Stowed away behind Edinburgh's finest graphic arts shop, this intimate space packs in works from Britain's hippest illustrators and designers. The gallery...

Books on design, photography and contemporary culture, glossy tomes on fashion, illustration, graffiti and graphic design, and interesting T-shirts,...

A family-run design company, Anta sells a selection of hand-painted stoneware and contemporary textiles, plus quirky accessories. The shop also has a...

Anta sells a selection of hand-painted stoneware and contemporary textiles, plus quirky accessories.

This 1996 debut venture from Apex was refurbished and extended just a couple of years later; more than a decade on, it remains a slick, contemporary venue...

Diving into this emporium is a glorious journey into decades, if not centuries, of fashion. Armstrongs has just about everything from 1920s glamour to 1980s...

Armstrongs has just about everything from 1920s glamour to 1980s kitsch.

Sacrificing some factual accuracy for engaging pantomime, tour guides lead you through the streets of Edinburgh to a section of the Underground Vaults,...

Probably the best independent music shop in town. Alongside new CDs, a range dominated by indie artists, there's a decent selection of cut-price DVDs and a...

If you walk under the bridge on the Cowgate that runs adjacent to this cavernous venue, you'll reach a spot where you can hear, at full blast ,what's going...

This big old city centre hotel has gone through three different identities in the last decade or so, becoming the Barceló Edinburgh Carlton in early 2008....